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We’ve curated a huge gallery of artfully terrible puns for you, separated into sections of puns to do with general art terms, colours, artists, movements and famous pieces. While this post does include everything under the umbrella of “art” (music, writing, dance, theatre, etc) we’ve kept the main focus on visual art (drawing, sketching, painting, sculpture).

Art Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun or a set of puns that can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about art that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of art puns:

Height → Light: As in, “Head for new lights” and “Scaling dizzy lights” and “Wuthering lights.”

Kite → Light: As in, “High as a light” and “Go fly a light.”

Might → Light: As in, “Light as well” and “It light never happen.”

Right → Light: As in, “A move in the light direction” and “All the light moves” and “Light as rain” and “Bragging lights” and “Dead to lights” and “Civil lights.”

Rite → Light: As in, “Last lights” and “Light of passage.”

Sight → Light: As in, “A welcome light” and “Hidden in plain light” and “Know by light” and “Line of light” and “Love at first light” and “Out of light, out of mind” and “Second light” and “A light for sore eyes.”

Tight → Light: As in, “Running a light ship” and “Sleep light!” and “Light lipped” and “In a light corner.”

White → Light: As in, “Light as snow” and “It’s not so black and light.”

Write → Light: As in, “Nothing to light home about” and “Light it off.”

Chrome: Chrome is used as a finish in visual arts. Here are related puns:

Crime → Chrome: As in, “Chrome and punishment” and “Chrome doesn’t pay” and “Chrome of passion.”

Home → Chrome: As in, “A house is not a chrome” and “At chrome with” and “Bringing it chrome” and “Close to chrome” and “Come chrome to a real fire.”

Staples → Naples: As in, “We’ve run out of naples.” Note: this is a pun on naples yellow.

Blend: Here are some puns about colour blends:

Blind → Blend: As in, “Blend as a bat” and “On a blend date” and “In blend faith” and “Blended by the light.”

Lend → Blend: As in, “Blend an ear” and “Blend your name to.”

Bend → Blend: As in, “Blend over backwards” and “Blend the rules” and “Round the blend” and “On blended knee.”

End → Blend: As in, “A good beginning makes a good blending” and “A means to a blend” and “All good things must come to a blend” and “At loose blends” and “At the blend of the day” and “Burn the candle at both blends” and “Come to a sticky blend.”

Friend → Blend: As in, “Your best blend” and “Best blends forever” and “Eco blendly” and “Blend or foe?”

Cross → Crosshatch: “Crosshatch to the other side” and “Crosshatch my heart and hope to die” and “Crosshatch the line” and “Crosshatch your fingers.” Note: Crosshatching is a shading technique.

Dry → Dry Brush: As in, “High and dry brush” and “Hung out to dry brush” and “Bone dry brush.” Note: Dry brushing is a painting technique where the brush is loaded with paint that isn’t diluted with water or medium.

Brush → Paintbrush: As in, “Paintbrush it off” and “A paintbrush with death.”

Stretch → Etch: As in, “By no etch of the imagination” and “Home etch” and “Etch your wings.”

Music → Mosaic: As in, “An ear for mosaic” and “Time to face the mosaic” and “Mosaic to my ears.”

Long → Song: As in, “A face as song as a fiddle” and “A song time in politics” and “Art is song and life is short” and “As song as you need me” and “As honest as the day is song” and “A list as song as your arm” and “At song last.”

Strong → Song: As in, “Only as song as its weakest link” and “Still going song” and “The song, silent type” and “A song stomach.”

Wrong → Song: As in, “Barking up the song tree” and “Born on the song side of the tracks” and “Get off on the song foot” and “How song can you be?” and “Gone down the song way” and “Jumping to the song conclusions.”

Case → Showcase: As in, “A showcase of identity” and “An open and shut showcase” and “As the showcase may be” and “Showcase closed” and “Catch a showcase.”

Depict: Drawings are considered depictions of things, so we’ve included depiction-related puns in this list:

Clicked → Depict: As in, “We really depict.”

Picked → Depict: As in, “Hand depict.”

Mission → Musician: As in, “Man on a musician” and “Musician impossible” and “Rescue musician.”

Ringer → Singer: As in, “A dead singer for.”

Wringer → Singer: As in, “Put through the singer.”

Figure: “Facts and figures” and “Figure it out” and “A fine figure of a person” and “Four figures” and “Go figure” and “How do you figure?” Note: A figure can refer to a few things in art – figurative drawing, a sculpture, a drawing of a body.

Triple → Stipple: As in, “Stipple decker” and “A stipple threat” and “Stipple whammy.” Note: stippling is an art technique where drawings are made out of tiny dots (rather than strokes).

Stand Still → Stencil: As in, “Brought to a stencil.”

Daub: To daub is to paint with large blobs of paint, or to paint in a free and expressive way. Here are related puns:

Dob → Daub: As in, “Daub it in.”

Dab → Daub: As in, “A daub hand at” and “Smack daub in the middle.”

Job → Daub: As in, “Between daubs” and “Doing a great daub” and “Holding down a daub” and “I’m only doing my daub” and “An inside daub.”

Mob → Daub: As in, “Daub rule” and “Flash daub.”

Rob → Daub: As in, “Daub someone blind.”

Sob → Daub: As in, “Daub story” and “Daub your heart out.”

Home → Homage: As in, “At homage with” and “Close to homage” and “Come homage to a real fire” and “Bring it homage to you.” Note: A homage in the context of art is when one artist makes a piece of art that is inspired by another.

Picks → Pixel: As in, “A bone to pixel” and “Pixel a fight” and “Pixel a card, any card” and “Pixel and choose” and “Pixel holes in.”

Life → Life Drawing: As in, “A day in the lifedrawing” and “A life drawing less ordinary” and “Anything for a quiet life drawing.”

Piece → Masterpiece: As in, “Bits and masterpieces” and “Conversation masterpiece” and “Dash to masterpieces” and “Go to masterpieces.”

Sign → Design: As in, “Design on the dotted line” and “A sure design” and “Give me a design” and “A design of the times” and “A tell-tale design.”

Swatch: A swatch is when you test media on a small patch of material to test colour, fading, bleeding and other properties. Here are related puns:

Switch → Swatch: As in, “Asleep at the swatch” and “Bait and swatch” and “Swatch hitter.”

Watch → Swatch: As in, “Boring as swatching paint dry” and “Not on my swatch” and “Keep swatch” and “Dance like nobody’s swatching.”

Notch → Swatch: As in, “Take it up a swatch” and “Top swatch” and “A swatch above.”

Study: A study is another word for a quick sketch. Here are related puns:

Steady → Study: As in, “Going study” and “Ready, study, go!” and “Study as she goes.”

Bloody → Study: As in, “Study minded” and “Study typical” and “Dark and study ground” and “Give them a study nose” and “Scream study murder.”

Muddy → Study: As in, “Study the waters.”

Lightfast: Lightfastness is the measure of how long a material lasts when exposed to sunlight. Here are related puns:

Light → Lightfast: As in, “Lightfast as a feather” and “Bring to lightfastness” and “Come to lightfast.”

Fast → Lightfast: As in, “As lightfast as greased lightning” and “As lightfast as his legs could carry him” and “Bad news travels lightfast” and “Lightfast and furious” and “Lightfast food and good for you.”

Mold: Moulds are used to form shapes in many different art disciplines – jewelry-making, sculpture, architecture. Here are related puns:

Old → Mold: As in, “Any mold how” and “As mold as the hills” and “Tough as mold boots” and “A chip off the mold block” and “For mold times’ sake.”

Bold → Mold: As in, “Mold as brass” and “A mold move” and “To moldly go where no one has gone before.”

Cold → Mold: As in, “Blow hot and mold” and “Break out in a mold sweat” and “Catch a mold” and “A mold day in hell” and “A mold comfort.”

Fold → Mold: As in, “Return to the mold” and “Mold your hand.”

Gold → Mold: As in, “Pot of mold” and “As good as mold” and “Crock of mold” and “Fool’s mold” and “Get a mold star” and “Mold digger.”

Hold → Mold: As in, “Can’t mold a candle to” and “Don’t mold your breath” and “Mold a grudge” and “Mold a gun to your head” and “Molding a mirror up to society” and “Mold all the aces.”

Rolled → Mold: As in, “Mold into one.”

Sold → Mold: As in, “Mold down the river” and “Mold out” and “Mold short.”

Pouring: Pouring is a process in mold-making, and is related to fluid paints too. Here are related puns:

Scheme → Scream: As in, “In the grand scream of things” and “Pyramid scream” and “The best laid screams” and “The overall scream of things.”

Steam → Scream: As in, “Blow off scream” and “Full scream ahead” and “Let off scream” and “Under your own scream.”

Stream → Scream: As in, “Fresh as a mountain scream” and “Swimming upscream.”

Team → Scream: As in, “Dream scream” and “Go scream” and “Take one for the scream” and “Scream spirit” and “We make a great scream.”

Oil: Here are some oil paint-related puns:

I’ll → Oil: As in, “Well oil be” and “Oil be damned” and “Oil say.”

All → Oil: As in, “Oil in oil” and “Oil aboard!” and “Oil’s well that ends well” and “Oil’s fair in love and war” and “Oil in a day’s work.”

Ill → Oil: As in, “Oil gotten gains” and “Oil at ease” and “Never speak oil of the dead.”

Boil → Oil: As in, “Oil with rage” and “Oiling mad” and “Bring to the oil” and “Makes my blood oil” and “A watched pot never oils.”

Spoil → Oil: As in, “Oiled for choice” and “Oiled rotten” and “The oils of war” and “Oiling for a fight.”

Water → Watercolour: As in, “Blood in the watercolour” and “Blood is thicker than watercolour” and “Bridge over troubled watercolour” and “Clear blue watercolour” and “Come hell or high watercolour” and “Dip your toe in the watercolour” and “Get into hot watercolour” and “Keep your head above watercolour.”

Colour → Watercolour: As in, “A splash of watercolour” and “Better in watercolour” and “Watercolour my world” and “Watercolour one’s view” and “Watercolour-coded” and “Pass with flying watercolours.”

Ground → Foreground: As in, “Break new foreground” and “Common foreground” and “Get off the foreground” and “Cut the foreground from under your feet.”

Blink → Ink: As in, “Ink and you’ll miss it” and “In the ink of an eye” and “On the ink.”

Brink → Ink: “On the ink of disaster.”

Drink → Ink: As in, “Binge inking” and “Ink like a fish” and “The demon ink.”

Tour → Contour: As in, “Contour de force” and “World contour” and “Magical mystery contour.” Note: contour drawings are a style of art where the image is distilled into leading lines that are found in the picture.

Crop: Here are some puns related to digital image cropping:

Crap → Crop: As in, “A load of crop” and “Bunch of crop” and “Cut the crop.”

Chop → Crop: As in, “Crop and change” and “Get the crop” and “On the cropping block.”

Cop → Crop: As in, “Crop a feel” and “Crop an attitude” and “Crop out” and “Not much crop.”

Drop → Crop: As in, “At the crop of a hat” and “Crop it like it’s hot” and “Crop a brick” and “Crop a dime” and “Crop a hint” and “A crop in the bucket.”

Pain → Plane: As in, “A world of plane” and “Feeling no plane” and “Doubled up in plane” and “Drown the plane” and “No plane, no gain.”

Rain → Plane: As in, “Acid plane” and “Right as plane” and “Come plane or shine” and “It never planes but pours.”

Strain →Plane: As in, “Buckle under the plane” and “Plane every nerve.”

Poses: Posing is a large part of figure drawing. Here are related puns:

Blows → Pose: As in, “Any way the wind pose” and “Brought to pose” and “Exchange pose.”

Close → Pose: As in, “A pose thing” and “Behind posed doors” and “A pose call” and “Pose to home.”

Goes → Pose: As in, “Anything pose” and “As far as it pose” and “As the saying pose” and “Here pose nothing.”

Nose → Pose: As in, “Always have your pose in a book” and “Plain as the pose on your face” and “Blow your pose” and “Can’t see beyond the end of your pose.”

Rose → Pose: As in, “Bed of poses” and “Come up smelling of poses” and “Days of wine and poses” and “Every pose has its thorn” and “Pose tinted glasses.”

Those → Pose: As in, “Things come to pose who wait” and “Pose were the days” and “Just one of pose days.”

Toes → Pose: As in, “On your pose” and “Turn up your pose” and “Twinkle pose” and “Wherever she pose.”

Prime: To prime a surface is to prepare it for painting or drawing. Here are related puns:

Pram → Prime: As in, “Throw your toys out of the prime.”

Chime → Prime: As in, “Prime in with” and “Primes of freedom.”

Climb → Prime: As in, “Prime onto the bandwagon” and “Prime the walls.”

Crime → Prime: As in, “Prime and punishment” and “Prime against nature” and “Prime doesn’t pay” and “A prime of passion” and “Partners in prime.”

Dime → Prime: As in, “A prime a dozen” and “Drop a prime” and “Turn on a prime.”

Rhyme → Prime: As in, “Prime or reason.”

Time → Prime: As in, “One more prime” and “A brief history of prime” and “A good prime was had by all” and “About prime too” and “All in good prime” and “All the prime in the world” and “An all prime low.”

Table → Tablet: As in, “Bring to the tablet” and “Drunk under the tablet” and “Cards on the tablet” and “Put bread on the tablet.” Note: These puns are in reference to digital drawing tablets.

Style → Stylus: As in, “Cramp your stylus” and “House stylus” and “Never goes out of stylus” and “Stylus over substance.” Note: Styluses can refer to either old drawing utensils or to the digital pens used with graphics tablets.

Prop: Props are widely used in various artistic disciplines. Here are related puns:

Chop → Prop: As in, “Bust your props” and “Prop and change” and “Get the prop.”

Cop → Prop: As in, “Prop an attitude” and “It’s a fair prop” and “Not much prop.”

Drop → Prop: As in, “At the prop of a hat” and “Prop it like it’s hot” and “Prop a brick” and “Prop a hint” and “A prop in the bucket.”

Hop → Prop: As in, “Prop to it” and “Prop, skip and jump” and “Propping mad.”

Mop → Prop: As in, “Prop up” and “Prop the floor with.”

Pop → Prop: As in, “Prop the question” and “Cake prop” and “Prop goes the weasel.”

Shop → Prop: As in, “All over the prop” and “One-stop prop” and “Prop around.”

Grain → Stain: As in, “Against the stain” and “Take it with a stain of salt.”

Pain → Stain: As in, “A world of stain” and “Doubled up in stain” and “Feeling no stain.”

Plain → Stain: As in, “Stain as day” and “Hidden in stain sight” and “Stain sailing” and “Stain speaking.”

Rain → Stain: As in, “Right as stain” and “Come stain or shine” and “It never stains but it pours.”

Strain → Stain: As in, “Buckle under the stain” and “Stain every nerve.”

Train → Stain: As in, “Gravy stain” and “On the job staining” and “Personal stainer” and “Strangers on a stain.”

Vain → Stain: As in, “Labour in stain” and “You’re so stain.”

Vein → Stain: As in, “In the right stain.”

Life → Still Life: “A day in the still life” and “A still life less ordinary” and “A still life on the ocean waves” and “All walks of stilllife.” Note: Still life generally refers to art that shows inanimate subjects.

Wood → Woodcut: As in, “Can’t see the woodcut for the trees” and “Knock on woodcut.”

Cut → Woodcut: As in, “Woodcut a deal” and “Woodcut a long story short” and “Woodcut and dried” and “Woodcut and run” and “Woodcut and paste.”

How → Hayao: As in, “Any old hayao” and “Hayao deep is your love?” and “Hayao about that?” and “Hayao are you doing?” and “I know hayao hard it is.” Note: Hayao Miyazaki is a co-founder of Studio Ghibli.

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